Jim Carrey has revealed he became inspired to paint to "heal a broken heart".

The Hollywood actor, who is currently embroiled in a wrongful death lawsuit following the death of his ex-girlfriend Cathriona White, has unveiled a selection of artwork in a new six-minute documentary titled Jim Carrey: I Needed Color.

In the mini documentary from Signature Galleries , which sees him work on life-size art and miniature clay sculptures, he talks candidly about how he felt after breaking up with an ex six years ago, which suggests it was girlfriend of five years Jenny McCarthy who he split from in 2010.

Jim appears haunted in the new documentary

Fans will get to see another side of Carrey (Image: SGG)

The actor says his passion for art was started by a broken heart (Image: SGG)

"When you're falling in love, you're floating, weightless," the actor said. "But when you lose that love, you have to reenter the atmosphere and it can get pretty rough, because you're just bouncing off one molecule and onto the next, ripping through them at such a pace that they just ignite and explode, until you find another heart that's doing the same thing, has landed and cooled, and then you start to float again."

Elsewhere in the video, he says: "I think what makes someone an artist is they make models of their inner life.

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Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey dated for five years (Image: WireImage)

"They make something come into physical being that is inspired by their emotions or their needs or what they feel the audience needs."

He can be seen painting portraits of Jesus and while he says he's not necessarily religious, he continued: "I don't know if Jesus is real, I don't know if he lived, I don't know what he means, but the painting[s] of Jesus are really my desire to convey Christ consciousness."

Meanwhile, The Mask actor's legal team has won a bid to get his ex-girlfriend's medical records so they can be used in the wrongful death lawsuit against him.

Carrey is being sued after Irish make-up artist Cathriona, 30, took a fatal overdose of prescription drugs.

Lawyers for her husband Mark Burton and mother Brigid Sweetmen claim the actor, 55, used his "wealth, influence and celebrity status" to provide the medication.

The actor with late ex-girlfriend Cathriona White

But Raymond Boucher, for Carrey, argued Ms White had recently had breast augmentation and had been prescribed medication that could have been responsible for her death.

The family's lawyers tried to prevent the disclosure of her medical history on privacy grounds but Judge Deirdre Hill ruled at Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday that it should be disclosed.

The actor is also a very talented painter (Image: Twitter)

Mr Boucher told the court: "One of the issues is her prescription medication. We know she had breast surgery that month, we know she had oxycodone prescribed to her that month."

Other medical information that must be disclosed is whether she had sexually transmitted infections before meeting the actor.

It has been claimed that Carrey was responsible for giving her herpes type 1 and 2 in 2013 after testing positive under the false name of Jose Lopez.

Cathriona, from Cappawhite, Co Tipperary, was found dead in her Los Angeles home in September 2015.

She had taken an overdose of Ambien, Propranolol and Percocet, which contains oxycodone.

The actor, who denies all the allegations, will face a 20-day jury trial over the claims under the Drug Dealer Liability Act from April 26.